Ingredients

Preparation

Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Top with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a tall glass filled with fresh crushed ice. (Or simply combine everything in a blender cup. Add 3/4 cup of crushed ice and flash blend for 5 seconds. Pour into cocktail glass.) Garnish with the pineapple leaf and lime wheel.

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Recent Review

This is one of those cocktail recipes that's "iffy," both historically and taste-wise. The original 1957 recipe is not good, and this is the 1980's version that isn't really great either. It's okay, but if you're going to go so far as to make a neon blue drink it should be more authentically tiki. Trader Vic used 3 oz pineapple, 1.5 silver rum, 1 coconut cream, 1/2 blue curaçao, 1/4 lemon, either shaken or blended. That's a much better drink that's more reminiscent of the islands. And you're not weirdly throwing half and half in your drink (barf), although for the reviewer below...no, that won't curdle. Trader Vic was notoriously against overly sweet drinks, thus the absence of a lot of coconut-pineapple beverages on his menus. For those looking for this, his gun club punch or a Molokai mike are tropical, refreshing and not a nasty 80's throwback, ha.